what engineering4kids (aka k8engineering) is, why we are doing this, big idea
examples of pages, engineering design process, elements of pages
google form "tool" to make the editor's job easier - just fill in textboxes in form > editor > new page
Create your own example
Step through the Engineering Design Process asking the questions that the "engineers" must have considered to come up with this solution. What are the important facts about the problem? What were the "requirements"? What were the "essential components"? What special problems did they have to overcome with engineering?
Include links to information about the underlying engineering principles and tools used by the original engineers. Suggest some hands-on activities that would be cool projects to show the engineering challenge.
add tags to all pages, create pages with lists by tag
balance tags - about 10 stories / tag * number of search results controlled in personal profile ? default 10
templates
designchallenge
learnmore - reference only
2013.3.22
different font not supported - fun font? - comic sans
"new" tag - shows as example on home page, for now, eliminate tag ~: needs work, sorts to end of tags, page is incomplete, fix these first
header - title, no picture - not as attractive, but avoids problems - picture / title in wiki heading - not both; iPad - title in window bar - not very visible, looks bad on regular page if repeated
Create your own example
Step through the Engineering Design Process asking the questions that the "engineers" must have considered to come up with this solution. What are the important facts about the problem? What were the "requirements"? What were the "essential components"? What special problems did they have to overcome with engineering?
Include links to information about the underlying engineering principles and tools used by the original engineers. Suggest some hands-on activities that would be cool projects to show the engineering challenge.
Google form - Engineering Design Challenge
engineering4kids stylesheet
templates
2013.3.22
- different font not supported - fun font? - comic sans
- "new" tag - shows as example on home page, for now, eliminate tag ~: needs work, sorts to end of tags, page is incomplete, fix these first
- header - title, no picture - not as attractive, but avoids problems - picture / title in wiki heading - not both; iPad - title in window bar - not very visible, looks bad on regular page if repeated
2013.2.26